I slid into the booth opposite Pasha and Jake and we sat in silence until the drinks came: the same green stuff as before. This time I wasn’t hesitant; I needed that drink, because now I knew more about what I was up against, what I was going to face come tomorrow, and I wasn’t at all sure I was ...
I stepped back into the temple and there she was, as though she’d been waiting for me. The way she looked at me, I was pretty sure she had been. Always a nice little stroke for the ego. A rustle of lily-white robes, velvet that clung to her in ways that made some very distracting thoughts flash a...
Perak asked. “That’s about it,” I said, though the latest boom-shudder almost drowned me out. We were holed up in the lab again, and Perak kept fiddling with the pain rig as we talked – he might be Archdeacon but he was always going to be an enginee...